Checking Accounts That Pay Decent Interest
High-yield checking accounts might be as rare as Sasquatch these days, but that doesn't mean they don't exist. An annual survey from Bankrate.com, ...
High-yield checking accounts might be as rare as Sasquatch these days, but that doesn't mean they don't exist. An annual survey from Bankrate.com, ...
The Huffington Post | Catherine New | Posted 05.23.2012
Prepaid cards are everywhere these days, quickly replacing cash and checks as the fastest way to transfer money. If you're not familiar with them, the...
The Huffington Post | Catherine New | Posted 05.23.2012
American Express is willing to farm for money. On Tuesday, the financial services company announced the launch of a new FarmVille-branded prepaid ...
The Huffington Post | Catherine New | Posted 05.21.2012
Free checking at Wells Fargo is officially over. Effective August 7, all Essential Checking customers will pay a $7 monthly service fee. Until rec...
The Huffington Post | Catherine New | Posted 05.17.2012
Another bank is raising fees. U.S. Bank is bumping up overdraft fees for all its accounts beginning June 29, the Minneapolis-based bank confirmed o...
The Huffington Post | Catherine New | Posted 05.10.2012
JPMorgan Chase wants it all, catering to everyone from the richest customers who provide hefty returns on deposits to the poorest who are willing to p...
HuffingtonPost.com | Catherine New | Posted 05.07.2012
Josh Crawford, 42, of Squaw Valley, Calif., has not had a checking account or credit card in 14 years. But that has not stopped him from participating...
HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 04.09.2012
WASHINGTON -- Ten months after the American retailers won a lobbying victory on Capitol Hill against debit card swipe fees, a trade group representing...
The Huffington Post | Catherine New | Posted 03.28.2012
Despite an uptick in the number of big banks charging fees for low-balance checking accounts, free checking accounts are not dead--yet. A new tool...
HuffingtonPost.com | Catherine New | Posted 03.05.2012
It was the train ticket to bank-fee hell. Three days after Taylor McKinley, 27, closed his checking account at Fifth Third Bank, an automatic $10 ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 03.02.2012
Last year's wild legislative melee over debit card swipe fees featured a curious contradiction: Although big Wall Street banks stood to lose the most ...
The Huffington Post | Catherine New | Posted 03.01.2012
JP Morgan Chase wants consumers to believe that a maintenance fee for a checking account is just another ordinary item in a household's monthly budget...
Reuters | Posted 04.22.2012
By Dave Clarke WASHINGTON, Feb 21 (Reuters) - The new U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is weighing a crackdown on checking a...
HuffingtonPost.com | Catherine New | Posted 02.07.2012
When compared with the billions of dollars big banks have rung up in overdraft fees over the last decade, recent settlements with customers over unfai...
HuffingtonPost.com | Catherine New | Posted 01.18.2012
The cost of not having enough money just got steeper. The median overdraft fee banks charge customers surged to $30 from $27.50 last year, accordi...
Richard Barrington | Posted 02.20.2012
Will customers be treated to higher deposit or higher fees? Or will a wild card such as technology dominate banking news in 2012?
AP | By CANDICE CHOI | Posted 12.07.2011
NEW YORK -- Credit unions are basking in the spotlight again. Whenever a big bank rolls out a controversial fee, customers start fuming about taking ...
Posted 12.04.2011
(Ross Kerber) - U.S. banks are losing ground in the battle to combat credit and debit card fraud, a new report shows, underscoring the growing thr...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.30.2011
WASHINGTON -- While demonstrators in New York are calling for an occupation of Wall Street, a new push by Democrats in Congress proposes a different t...
Odysseas Papadimitriou | Posted 11.16.2011
While you may still be happy with your checking account and may not have incurred additional fees as result of the Durbin Amendment, it's still important to be aware of major industry trends such as these.
Tom Doctoroff | Posted 10.14.2011
China's e-commerce scene is, like the Internet itself, a paradoxical combination of "democratic" people power and top-down "management."
Ed Mierzwinski | Posted 06.05.2011
Washington should be implementing Wall Street reform, not tearing it down.
Russell Simmons | Posted 05.25.2011
I am extremely concerned about the potential impact that the "Durbin Amendment" will have on the ability of community banks and credit unions to provide card services at affordable rates to poor Americans.
CNN Money | David Ellis | Posted 05.25.2011
Could debit cards be the next cash cow for banks? If banks have their way, they will. Americans have conducted more transactions and spent more money...
Jerry Zezima | Posted 11.17.2011
At the risk of being sued by Popeye, I am what I am. Unfortunately, what I am can't be printed in a family newspaper. I don't even know who I am anymore. That's because my identity was recently stolen.
The Huffington Post | Catherine New | Posted 05.23.2012